Horseshoe



(No Model.)

J. M. KILMER.

WITNESSES INVENTOR A; ATTORNEYS UN TED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

. JONAS M. KILMER, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,337, dated February 28, 1882.

Application filed August 23, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, JONAS M. KILMER, a citizen of the United States, resident of Binghamton, in the county of Broome and State .of New York, have invented a new and valuableImprovementin Horseshoes; and Ido here,- by declare that the follon ingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference beiu g had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation ofa bottom view of rnyinvention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sec-' tion.

This invention has relation to horseshoes; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of two rabbeted portions provided with registering upwardly-tapering holes and connected by a pivot-pin, also tapering upwardly and upset at its upper or smaller end, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointedout in the claim.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates a sectional horseshble. One section, B, carries the toe-call; O, has a rabbet, D, and has a shoulder, E, under-beveled, as shown. The other section, F, has a rabbet, G, and a shoulder, H, having an under bevel, as shown. The rabbet D of the section B is made in the upper face of the section, and is in its extent about the length of the toe-calk. The shoulder E is concave, and the end ofthis section is convex, as shown. The rabbet G of the section F is in the under face thereof. The end of the section F is convex, and its shoulder H is concave, so that when the sections are united the convexities of the one fit the concavities of the other section. When the sections are joined, the rabbets lapping, and the curves of the shoe are in line, a tapering hole, I, is bored from the bottom of the pivot is to permit the shoe to be adjusted to tracts of different sizes. It is made tapering from below upward, in order that as the under face of theshoe and pivot become worn the pivot cannot drop out or the under section of the shoe become detached. This latter result is obtained for the reason that the tapering hole and tapering pin coincide throughout, and the wearing away of the lower end of the pivot-pin does not destroy the head, as it continually forms a new head.

' The sections B and F are each made in one piece, being struck up by dies. The toe-call; therefore forms an integral part of section B, and serves to strengthen the shoe at the juncture of the sections. In summer time and where light shoes are required I may dispense with the toe-calk. The principal object I accomplish is to prevent the contraction of the animals hoof. The pivot-point is of such construction, the curves fitting each other so that the sections may be worked both inwardly and outwardly, that when the weight of the animal comes upon the shoe it will expand and will permit the hoof to retain its natural growth.

, Having thus fully desoribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a sectional horseshoe, the combination of the section B, having the toe-calk O, rabbet, and under-beveled shoulder E, and the section F, having rabbet G and under-beveled shoulder H, the ends of saidsections being convex and the shoulders concave, the said sections being pivoted together through the media of the tapered registering holes I I and the tapering pin J, passed up through said holes and upset 'at its smaller end, substantially as and for the JONAS M. KILMER.

Witnesses:

JAMES J. SHEEHY, J OHN A. ELLIS. 

